Crossposting while logged out

[holyschist]

Title:
Crossposting while logged out

Area:
Crossposting

Summary:
Create a setting so that if a particular journal is set to crosspost by default, posting while logged out or logged in as another account will still cause the journal to crosspost.

Description:
Currently, when posting while logged out or while logged in to a different account, journals set to crosspost to another service will not crosspost automatically. If the user then wants to crosspost, they have to log out, log into the other account, and manually edit the post to crosspost. This reduces the utility of the post-while-logged-out option, since the user has to log out and back in in order to crosspost.

For example:

1. birdaccount is set to automatically crosspost to an LJ mirror

2. user is logged into dogaccount, but posts to birdaccount using the "switch accounts" feature on the update page

3. birdaccount does not automatically crosspost

4. user has to log out of dogaccount and then into birdaccount to manually edit the post to crosspost to LJ, defeating the point of posting while logged out

I would love it if automatic crossposting settings for an account were respected no matter how the post to the account is made, so that

1. birdaccount is set to automatically crosspost to an LJ mirror

2. user is logged into dogaccount, or not logged in at all, but posts to birdaccount

3. birdaccount automatically crossposts to the LJ mirror

This would make it far easier to switch between DW journals while maintaining mirrors to other sites, without having to set up two browsers or constantly log in and out.

Poll #12624 Crossposting while logged out

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 44

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Should be implemented as-is.
25 (56.8%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
0 (0.0%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
4 (9.1%)

(I have no opinion)
15 (34.1%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)

Comments

[arethinn]

Hmm. I'm not sure about this. I think it would depend on the behavior of the checkbox on the update page that normally controls this. If it always respected my default crossposting behavior, what if I wished to post a post this way that was not crossposted? I'd have no way of stopping it, because this "always perform default" would override that, yes? I think having crossposts occur only if explicitly selected (even if that is "I set that default and then didn't uncheck this box when it presented the choice") is better behavior.

But I don't actually use this feature in the first place - I always switch accounts, using LJLogin - so maybe I am not a typical use case.

[marahmarie]

I voted against it not because I'm against it (but considering the hints Denise dropped above the suggestion might not be needed after all?) but because I'm hung up on a little bit of wording: "posting while logged out or logged in as another account" makes me knee-jerk reflex into thinking a) "But no one should be able to post while logged out!" (blame my utter literalness at times) and b) "But no one should be able to post from one DW account to another!" (again, I'm literal). You probably don't mean by either statement what I think you mean, but lacking more facts I just can't go with it - and again, not that I don't want to.

ETA: never mind...thought it over again and finally got what you meant by statement b) even though I'm still on the fence over what you meant by a) - and as for Denise's hint, it probably still doesn't cover this facet of log-ins (specifically, the crossposting behavior you mention in detail when you switch usernames on the posting page). Changing vote to a Yes. :)